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Padín: There is no right for the neighbors to take their hair for the third consecutive year with participatory budgets (08/11/2018)

- "Every year is worse, the usual collapse of all years, has now added the problem that the budgets of each project have been so low that it has been necessary to take the money reserved for the neighborhood councils", has regretted Manuel Padín who adds that "now we project the 2019 without completing the 2017, at this rate we are on track to reach a full term of delay"

- "One of the criteria that we want to take to distribute the next participations is the socioeconomic reality of the councils and neighborhoods, but have we already executed the proposal of Citizens to make this study of the socioeconomic evolution of our districts, we have created And the socio-economic observatory that we took forward in the previous plenary? Are we going to invent comparative data? asks Manuel Padín.

Cartagena, Thursday, November 8.

After the meeting today of the Commission for the Monitoring of Participatory Budgets, the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said that "we have always been in favor of creating channels of participation ordered so that our neighbors can influence the accounting document most important of its City Council, but both MC and PSOE created in 2016 a poor and sloppy system that has generated much frustration, many comparative grievances and has damaged and depleted the money reserved for the Neighborhood Boards ".

"At this moment, the important thing is that the works, although delayed, will be concluded, and take the necessary measures so that the neighbors no longer feel cheated, or that they are begging for projects that they have the right to see finished," says Padín.

"Now we are projecting the 2019 when they are without making the 2017, at this rate we will reach a full term of delay," laments Manuel Padin who stressed that "one of the criteria you want to take to distribute the next participatory is the socioeconomic reality of the councils and neighborhoods, but have we already executed the proposal of Citizens to do that study of the socioeconomic evolution of our districts, or have we created the socio-economic observatory that we carried out in the previous Plenary? Are they going to invent comparative data? Manuel Padín asks himself.

Regarding the process of participatory budgets, Manuel Padín, believes that "every year is worse, the usual collapse of all years, has now added the problem that the budgets of each project have been so low that it has been It is necessary to take the money reserved for the neighborhood councils, when these bodies already had other urgent expenses planned. "

"The socialist malpractice, inherited in turn from MC, has managed to harm also the neighborhood committees and I think it is something that even the members of the PSOE and MC recognize."

Manuel Padín has ensured that "the list of works and maintenance pending implementation in our neighborhood meetings, where neighborhood associations come, is huge, absolutely embarrassing."

"It seems incredible that the governors of Cartagena, and those who were in 2015 and 2016, fill their mouths of participation when they have abandoned and paralyzed each and every one of the neighborhood councils of our municipal area."